{"id":3162,"date":"2012-09-26T07:14:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:43:33","slug":"hurricane-season-what-do-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/hurricane-season-what-do-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Season – what do we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After watching the devastating effects of 2012\u2019s biggest storm \u2013 Hurricane Isaac \u2013 it became quite evident what impact a slow-moving tropical storm like this can have.\u00a0 First, the storm took much longer than anyone had anticipated to move through the Louisiana coast where it made landfall on August 28th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Isaac was the slowest moving hurricane in recent memory<\/p><\/div>\n

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Usually people can feel safe leaving the coast and heading inland for a day or so. With most hurricanes, after 24 hours, the vacationers would feel safe enough to return, losing only one day of their vacation. With Isaac, the storm didn\u2019t appear to move, hammering the southern areas of Louisiana for days.<\/p>\n

Technically, the storm hit at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday the 28th<\/sup> and then moved back out to the gulf. It hit land again early morning on the following day. It wasn\u2019t until 4:00 p.m. on Thursday that Isaac degenerated into a tropical depression as it slowly moved up to northern Louisiana.<\/p>\n

With a storm that unpredictable, how do you salvage a vacation?\u00a0 What if you had planned to go to Louisiana during that time period?\u00a0 Or worse yet, what if you lived in southern Louisiana and planned to go to Europe during that time? Sure, you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about being there during the hurricane, but could you go on vacation and not worry about what had become of your home while you were gone?<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are all things that could have been covered by the right kind of travel insurance,\u201d says Zain Jeewanjee of G1G Travel Insurance<\/a>. \u201cIf you purchased a policy with \u201cChange of Mind\u201d<\/strong> or \u201cCancel for any Reason<\/strong>\u201d coverage, you could have chosen to cancel your vacation and been completely covered.\u201d With Change of Mind coverage, you can make the decision to go or to stay and not have that concerned feeling in the pit of your stomach.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany underwriters carry this kind of policy and our experienced professionals can make sure you get\u00a0the proper one,\u201d said Jeewanjee. For questions, email info@g1g.com<\/a> or call 800-257-7718 ext 100.<\/p>\n

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After watching the devastating effects of 2012\u2019s biggest storm \u2013 Hurricane Isaac \u2013 it became quite evident what impact a slow-moving tropical storm like this can have.\u00a0 First, the storm took much longer than anyone had anticipated to move through the Louisiana coast where it made landfall on August 28th.   Usually people can feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news-blog","category-travel"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":"","rpg_gallery_thumb":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","gb-block-post-grid-landscape":"","gb-block-post-grid-square":"","et-pb-post-main-image":"","et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":"","et-pb-portfolio-image":"","et-pb-portfolio-module-image":"","et-pb-portfolio-image-single":"","et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":"","et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":"","et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":"","et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":"","et-pb-image--responsive--phone":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

After watching the devastating effects of 2012\u2019s biggest storm \u2013 Hurricane Isaac \u2013 it became quite evident what impact a slow-moving tropical storm like this can have.\u00a0 First, the storm took much longer than anyone had anticipated to move through the Louisiana coast where it made landfall on August 28th. Hurricane Isaac was the slowest moving hurricane in recent memory   Usually people can feel safe leaving the coast and heading inland for a day or so. With most hurricanes, after 24 hours, the vacationers would feel safe enough to return, losing only one day of their vacation. 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